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Robert, R., publishes a table of the alkaloids of the solanacea, giv- 
ing the chemical formula, the action on the eye, and the derivation or 
occurrence. — Riedel’s Berichte, 1905, p. 11. 
Goszling, W., discusses the alkaloids belonging to the phenanthren 
group, their composition, derivatives, and uses. He also presents a 
descriptive study of the alkaloids belonging to the purin group, their 
composition, derivatives, and uses. — Apoth. Ztg., Berlin, 1905, v. 20, 
pp. 969, 1017. 
Leger ( J. Pharm. Chim., v. 19, pp. 329 and 479) presents two arti- 
cles giving the results of investigations upon the root bark of pome- 
granate, upon coca, belladonna, nux vomica, ignatia bean, ipecac, 
and Peruvian bark. — Reference in J. Am. Chem. Soc., R. Y., 1905, 
v. 27, p. 1342. 
Reichard presents nine articles on investigations covering the re- 
actions of morphine, cocaine, atropine, strychnine, brucine, and anti- 
pyrine. — (Chem. Ztg., v. 28, pp. 299, 339, 912, 977, 1048, 1102; Pharm. 
Ztg., v. 49, pp. 523, 855; Pharm Zentralh. v. 45, p. 645) ; reference 
from J. Am. Chem. Soc., R. Y., 1905, v. 27, p. 1342. 
Reichard, C., gives a comprehensive review of the reactions that 
are applicable or characteristic for caffeine and theobromine. — Pharm. 
Zentralh., 1905, v. 46, p. 846. 
Robertson, T. B. (Univ. of California Public. Physiol., 1905, v. 2, 
pp. 159-162), publishes some observations on the action between the 
proteid molecule and the ion during the formation of an ion-proteid 
on the simple addition of the ion to the proteid molecule. — Biochem. 
Centralbl., 1905, v. 4, p. 544. 
Feder, E., discusses the influences of alkaloids on certain processes 
of oxidation. — (Arch. Pharm., v. 242, pp. 680-704.) J. Chem. Soc. 
Lond., 1905, v. 88, p. 151. 
Lutz, L. (Bui. Soc. Bot. France, 1905, v. 52, pp. 194-202), in an 
article on the assimilation of organic nitrogenous substances by plants, 
concludes that alkaloids, in common with ammonia compounds and 
pyridin bases, are not directly assimilable but that they may become 
available in the presence of some form of assimilable nitrogen. — Exp. 
Sta. Rec., v. 17, Ro. 4, p. 348. 
2. MICROSCOPICAL DESCRIPTIONS. 
Sayre, L. E., in a review of the pharmacognosy of the new 
U. S. P., says: 
It is unfortunate that space in the U. S. P. would not admit of any lengthy 
microscopical descriptions of drugs, but it is well to note that an entering 
wedge has been made for these descriptions in a very few cases. It is seldom 
we find described in the text of the Pharmacopoeia any anatomical structures 
where the compound microscope is necessary for yerification. A phrase here 
and there is employed; more of them might have been injected into the text 
to the advantage of the U. S. P. — Am. Druggist, N. Y., 1905, v. 47, p. 66. 
